BORDER RIVER

Suspected illegal immigrants hang onto an innertube and garbage bags containing their clothes as they float down the New River in Calexico, Calif. Sunday, Jan. 23, 2000. Illegal immigrants increasingly are using the heavily polluted river to float into the U.S. partly because U.S. Border Patrol agents have been told not to go into the river because of the pollution. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)